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"I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor."
"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend."
"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
"My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing."
"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."
"Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world."
"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60."
"You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem."
"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
"Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure."
"Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature."
"Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not."
"I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives."
"I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."
"I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life."
"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace."
"I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself."
"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
"A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there."
"Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?"